Transistor is a science fiction action role playing video game by Supergiant Games, and
the studio's first title since the release of their critically acclaimed Bastion. The game was released on May 20, 2014 for Windows and PlayStation 4,with other platforms possible in the future.
The game combines free movement in real time with a planning mode. When
Red's action bar is filled, she can enter a planning mode called
"Turn()". From there the player can map out a series of movements and
actions to take (each consuming a bit of the action bar) and then execute them
with super-speed. Afterwards Red must dodge enemies until her Turn() fills
again. As seen in the PAX 2013 presentation, Red will be awarded experience
points after battles and sometimes be given chances to enhance learned skills
(called Functions) that she gains from fallen victims of the Process. Once
enhanced, her skills change to have wider damage areas, for example. The PAX
2014 presentation of Transistor reveals that Functions can be swapped out as
active abilities or as upgrades to other active Functions. The DualShock 4
Light Bar flashes in sync with the Transistor’s speech, and there will also be
over 30 trophies for the game's PS4 version.
Red, a famous singer in a city called Cloudbank, is attacked by the
Process, a robotic force commanded by a group called the Camerata. During the
clash, she is transported all the way across Cloudbank and comes into
possession of the mysterious Transistor--the greatsword-like weapon she was to
be assassinated with. The Transistor is buried into the chest of an as-of-yet
unnamed man (who seems to be close with Red), now slumped over and dead; though
his consciousness and voice seems to have been absorbed into the Transistor
itself, along with Red's voice. The Camerata continues to track Red and the
Transistor down with the Process, wanting the weapon for some yet-unknown cause.
The
game opens with the player character, Red, kneeling by the body of an unknown
man who has been killed with a glowing greatsword - the eponymous Transistor.
It is apparent that the unknown man, who appears to be familiar with Red, has
had his consciousness absorbed by the Transistor by means unknown - the unknown
man acts as the story’s narrator, offering advice and dialogue to the mute Red,
a singer whose voice, it is revealed, was stolen by a sinister group of
high-ranking public figures known as the Camerata. As Red makes her way out of
the district the game starts in, she comes into conflict with the Process, an
army of robotic intelligences that is apparently under the control of the
Camerata.
Red
makes her way to her former stage, in Cloudbank's Goldwalk district, where it
is revealed that the Camerata attempted to kill her with the Transistor, only
for the unknown man to step in front of the blow, killing him but leaving her
relatively unscathed aside from the loss of her voice. At the stage, Red encounters
Sybil Reisz, the Camerata member who had befriended her before the
assassination attempt, in a corrupted Process-like form. After defeating Sybil
and absorbing her consciousness into the Transistor like various other
‘processed’ individuals before in her travels, Red uses Sybil’s knowledge of
the Camerata to locate their leader - one of the administrators of Cloudbank,
Grant Kendrell.
As Red
nears the Highrise district, the Process become more aggressive in their
actions, attacking the entire city - this leads to the Process becoming public
knowledge. Asher Kendrell, another member of the Camerata, publically
apologizes for the Camerata’s actions and reveals their involvement in the
Process invasion, going so far as to contact and apologize to Red for all the
Camerata has done to her, the mysterious man in the Transistor, and the dozens
of other influential figures who were processed into the Transistor. It becomes
apparent that the Camerata are no longer in control of the Process, and that
the current situation is very different from their intended vision. After
fighting past numerous Process enemies, including a massive creature referred
to as ‘the Spine’, whose presence severely affects the man in the Transistor,
Red reaches the hideout of the Camerata in Bracket Towers only to find that
Grant and Asher have committed suicide.
After
resolving to hunt down the final member of the Camerata, Royce Bracket, and
then escape the city, Red and her companion find themselves travelling back
through the starting portion of the game which has been ‘processed’ into a
blockish, white facsimile of its original form. Upon reaching the starting
point of the game, Royce approaches Red through a robotic proxy and offers a
truce in order for them to work together to stop the Process. Royce reveals
that the Transistor is a ‘remote-control’ to manipulate the changing landscape
and environment of Cloudbank. It is the central part of the apparatus used by
the city's administrators, including the late Grant, to change the city to fit
the whims of the people. After fighting through the completely Processed
district of Fairview, in which the Process has evolved a humanoid form and the
laws of physics only loosely apply, Red arrives at the Cradle, the system that
the Transistor powers in order to manipulate the Process - which is suggested
to be an integral part of the system to rearrange and change Cloudbank- and
stop the invasion. After Red places the Transistor in the Cradle, she and Royce
are absorbed into it. In the Transistor’s virtual realm, now armed with a
Transistor of his own, Royce informs Red that only one of them can escape back
to Cloudbank and repair the city - he apologizes to Red for this and the two
clash.
After
defeating Royce, leaving him trapped inside the Transistor-world, Red is
transported back into Cloudbank, where she begins the task of rebuilding
Cloudbank’s processed areas. Upon un-processing the mysterious man’s body and
learning he cannot be restored from inside the Transistor, however, she sits
down beside his body and - despite his protests and pleadings - impales herself
with the Transistor, committing suicide. In the credits scene it is shown that
the man, revealed to be her lover, and Red are reunited within the virtual
world of the Transistor, a heartfelt exchange of greetings revealing that her
voice has also been restored.
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